Ancient evidence of religion as the downfall of humanity Or pimpin' a new book?  ¶ 2/28/2009 11:03:00 PM 0 comments

  More bad law from SCOTUS Supremes tried to have it both ways: Monument wasn't city's but city can express itself.

In the end one religious monument but not another; go figure.  ¶ 2/25/2009 04:10:00 PM 0 comments

  Windows 7 BSOD Didn't catch the error number: Occurred while removing AVG antivirus. First time with a BSOD.

Got it again reinstalling the software. This machine hadn't been turned on in a while and I had thought that the AVG installation was good.

Guess we need to turn off automatic restart so we can catch the error number.  ¶ 2/21/2009 12:08:00 PM 0 comments

  AOL: Still suckin' after all these years So we're helpin' a friend and they use AOL so they want it installed (what a miserable experience). These folks are like a great many others we've encountered using AOL (always have and don't know any better).  ¶ 2/15/2009 09:07:00 PM 0 comments

  Microsoft to stick a toe in the retail waters MSFT can not afford another flop OS and this move can only be seen as an attempt to ensure that Windows 7's altogether positive buzz translates into sales.  ¶ 2/13/2009 10:38:00 AM 0 comments

  Great Bloggingheads The seldom seen Corn and Pinkerton.  ¶ 2/12/2009 10:53:00 PM 0 comments

  Post-beta Windows 7 leaked In the wild of BitTorrent with an updated version of IE8.  ¶ 2/12/2009 09:13:00 PM 0 comments

  Possible free upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 A bunch of people said that Windows 7 should have been Vista SP2.

Aside: We did both a clean install of Win7 and an upgrade: Been a dog's age since we've seen "windows.old" in Explorer.  ¶ 2/11/2009 09:49:00 PM 0 comments

  Not on Wozniak's dance card? You are a Cranky Geek Patrick Norton is good, as usual. We enjoyed Patrick on DL.tv but just haven't been able to make Rev3 a regular stop.  ¶ 2/11/2009 09:25:00 PM 0 comments

  Coleman's (self-serving) devine insight "God wants me to serve."-- Norm Coleman (R), quoted by Smart Politics.  ¶ 2/10/2009 02:38:00 AM 0 comments

  Windows 7 on a flash drive We linked because we are finding a robust utility to the new OS. We are finding some hardware not accessible in Vista is working with Windows 7 without an updated driver. The plan is to try a few older games that we miss.  ¶ 2/09/2009 10:18:00 PM 0 comments

  Twitter Twaddle 140 characters (prior phrase is one tenth of a tweet) make for a limited slice of the individual experience.

Facebook took a strategic leap with their cash infusion. Future historians studying the Great '08 Depression will be most appreciative.

Infant Twitter will need to develop quite a bit if it is to flourish.  ¶ 2/09/2009 08:54:00 PM 0 comments

  Long may it run: Windows XP will eventually go open source That is our prediction. Microsoft will have little reason to keep the code proprietary after the shift to the new Vista/Windows 7 hybrid gains traction and quite a few reasons to keep the OS in use on the many devices with XP installed. If it is to happen, this shift to open source will take place by 2012.

Certainly not likely to abandon a revenue stream, MSFT will offer paid support as is available for Linux.  ¶ 2/08/2009 01:11:00 PM 0 comments

  Shafer makes a pitch for the marketplace of ideas Glad to see that the press punditry is catching up with us on this matter.

We have to say that contrary to the stereotype, nothing has effected us as much as journalism in swinging us away from our socialistic (Trotskyite) leanings. In our news business we have found an imperfect beauty to the workings of the much hated capitalism.

We assert the obvious connection of art to ideas in framing this discussion. We also acknowledge (look at our Alexa ranking) the practice of art for art's sake. But as our societies developed, we found the means to produce and pay for art. Support for these cultural expressions has steadily progressed from a dependence on patrons, churches and governments to a broader popular support. Whatever form the model took, this support meant fruition for the art.

American society found the means and mechanisms for the fruition of ideas; an imperfect process largely determined by our brand of democracy. We cannot see a regression from popular support (willing to pay) for ideas and information to a model of large moneyed patrons as being good.

Inherent to the popular support model are checks to the likes of a Murdoch: The patron model offers little protection against the Medici.  ¶ 2/06/2009 01:21:00 PM 0 comments

  Six flavors of Windows 7   ¶ 2/03/2009 11:30:00 PM 0 comments

  Palin in perspective This is old but current once again it seems. From the comments:

"While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, who's hand was caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Palin and her bid.

The old rancher said, 'Well, ya know, Palin is a Post Turtle.' Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a 'Post Turtle' was.

The old rancher said, 'When you're driving down a country road you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a Post Turtle.'

The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued to explain.

'You know she didn't get up there by herself, she don't belong up there, and she don't know what to do while she's up there, and you just wonder what kind of dummy put her up there to begin with.' "

Good one, Sonia  ¶ 2/01/2009 05:34:00 PM 0 comments

  White House Looks at Limiting Commercial Use of President's Image Obamarama continues.  ¶ 2/01/2009 12:05:00 PM 0 comments